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Learn more about healthy food and farming
methods that protect the earth through Longview's free monthly book club!
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March 3rd Market
Shop at the Collegeville Farmers' Market at Longview and Also Enjoy the Farm's Many Seminars
The forecast for Saturday is rain--a perfect day to to begin boning up on the importance of sustainable agriculture to your family!
Greener Partners offers a wonderful array of seminars for kids and adults alike! There are 20 events and workshops scheduled for March--just in time for Spring! Offerings range from "Tiny Tillers Story Time" to "Eating Seasonally with Sarah," "Bee Keeping," "How to Roast Your Own Coffee with Hobo Ed," to "Winter Fruit Tree Pruning with Farmer Mark." They also offer numerous courses to help you with your home garden. Check out their offerings on the Greener Partners' website under Events and Workshops Click here
Longview has also formed a must-join Book Club: Each month beginning Sunday, April 1st, join Emily Richardson in discussing a food- or agriculture-related book at the Longview Farm. Explore the most talked-about issues surrounding our food. The group will gain a better understanding of how our choices affect our food sources, our health, and our planet through the works of well-known food and agriculture writers like Pollan, Wendell and Salatin. Registration is required. To sign up for the free discussion of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Micahel Pollan Click here
Want to learn more about CSAs? Then save the date of Sunday, March 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. for Longview's CSA Community Kick-Off Gathering! If you are curious about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) or have already registered the the 2012 season, enjoy a tour of the farm, ask questions, meet the farm crew, and meet the Longview Center for Agriculture's CSA members!
With all these offerings, don't forget the Collegeville Winter Farmers' Market this week! Stop by and visit the following Collegeville Farmers' Market farmers and vendors for all your favorite products at Longview this Saturday:
This week's featured product tasting from Mountain View Poultry Farm is their freshly made broccoli and cheese soup, made with creamy cheeses, spices and fresh broccoli florets! Perfect for a rainy winter day. This week, receive $1.00 off when you purchase any of their soups.
Mountain View also has a free-range egg special: two dozen for $6.50.
Also, don't forget to try the farm's marinated poultry, such as turkey London broil or their garlic butter cutlets. They are delicious and super easy to prepare. Mountain View also carries a line of soups, sausages, whole, cut up and parts of chickens and turkeys.
Red Haven Farm is back this week with their lean and flavorful pastured beef, pork and lamb, and entire line of home made products, including sausages, special cuts of meat, and their farm-fresh cheeses.
FreshAPeel Hummus will have a number of their wonderful hummus flavors reflecting both local and cross-cultural influences. Their hummus is made using a handcrafted single-batch production process for each of their tasty flavors. So good for you and delicious!
A'dello Vineyards returns bringing their chardonnays: Chardonnay Reserve, Chardonnay Naked, and semi-sweet Cardonnel, as well as their reds: a Chambourcin, Merlot or Cabernet Franc; their Cellar Door Collection of rose wines and their delicious signature fruit wines.
Old Mill Gourmet is back this week with the following home made products: blueberry lime jam, white peach raspberry jam, mango strawberry jam, honey and honey sticks, and our authentic Argentine chimichurri.
Marcy's Granola is back with her six original flavors of artisan granola, including her cashew with cranberries, which is now available in her 100% vegan flavor. Her granola is made with oats, dried fruits, nuts and seeds, and she uses only the finest oil and vegan-friendly sweeteners to make it slightly sweet. Try a free sample on Saturday, and you can also pre-order from her website: www.shop.marcysgranola.com and pick up your order at the market.
Little Lost Creek Alpaca Farm will be ready with all their alpaca products available--including their felted soaps, throws, and heavenly soft and warm socks, as well as handcrafted pottery by local potter Nicole Dubrow.
Kate returns with Om Shanti Naturals' luxurious body and shower washes, all natural herbal soaps, moisturing lip balms, salt and sugar body scrubs, massage oils, bath salts, bath oils and more.
Our Collegeville Farmers' Market vendors sell inside the Longview Farm Store each Saturday from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. through April 28th, 2012. The Longview Center for Agriculture is located at the former Willow Creek Farm, 3215 Stump Hall Road in Collegeville.
While visiting our farmers and vendors this week, check out the variety of local, sustainably produced products at the farm store!
Longview's store, which is operated by the non-profit Greener Partners, is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and is open Wednesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Directions to Longview: The Longview Center for Agriculture is located at 3215 Stump Hall Road, Collegeville, PA. (From the Collegeville Farmers' Market Main St. site, drive East down Main St. and cross the Perkiomen Creek Bridge. Drive about five miles East on Germantown Pike, then turn left on Rt. 363, and after several miles turn left again to Stump Hall Rd. Longview is about a mile down on your right.)
